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enswathe

American  
[en-swoth, -sweyth] / ɛnˈswɒð, -sweɪð /

verb (used with object)

enswathed, enswathing
  1. to swathe.


enswathe British  
/ ɪnˈsweɪð /

verb

  1. (tr) to bind or wrap; swathe

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of enswathe

First recorded in 1590–1600; en- 1 + swathe 1

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Rosy and proud are the skies of the East, Love-dowered moons to enswathe thee, delight thee: Thy days and our days—are thine then the least, O Aphrodite?

From Embers, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Ay, if words never needed enswathe aught But ignorance, impudence, envy And malice—what word-swathe would then vie With yours for a clearness crystalline?

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson

No other thing is more enswathed in the unknown.

From The History of the Telephone by Herbert Newton Casson

The sorrows and joys of the coming day are hidden from our sight, enswathed in the folded hours of toil.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.

From Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson

One object—that occupying the place of honour—was carefully enswathed.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd

His short and obese figure is enswathed in the folds of an ample crimson-bordered toga, or fine linen vestment of flowing folds.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

Its limits are broad; broad as the home of man; with its enswathing atmosphere added.

From Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

From the bed he took the baron’s sheets and blankets, enswathing the unfortunate servant until nothing but the tip of his nose was visible.

From The Maker of Opportunities by George Gibbs

With her hind legs Argiope turned the bee over and over twenty-five or twenty-six times, thus enswathing it with twenty-five or twenty-six wrappings of the silken sheet.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.

From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

Connect′ively.—Connective tissue, one of the four sets of the commonest classification of animal tissues, including a great variety—e.g. bone, cartilage, ligaments, and enswathing membranes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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